Sanctuary For Families

These two bills would aid in identifying and rescuing survivors, support recovering survivors, and strip back barriers to better collect data on human trafficking. SFF Director of Anti-Trafficking Policy Alexi Meyers is quoted.

SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger weighs in on the debate surrounding what role police should have in addressing domestic and gender-based violence.

"Providing this information to victims, and those in a position to assist them, in the very destinations in which they are being transported for purposes of sex and labor trafficking will prevent exploitation and save lives," says SFF Legal Director Dorchen Leidholt, in support of the passing of Paulin's bill.

SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger writes an op-ed discussing the devastating impacts of Office of Victim Services (OVS) funding cuts.

SFF Director of Anti-Trafficking Policy Alexi Meyers joins Senator Kirstin Gillibrand in support of two bipartisan bills, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act and the Put Trafficking Victims First Act, that would support victims and survivors of human trafficking.

“It’s very clear that either the prosecutor or certainly the municipal court judge failed this victim repeatedly and put her at heightened risk of dangerous lethal intimate partner violence,” says SFF Legal Director Dorchen Leidholt.

In 2008, Anjali moved to America against her will. Years later, her husband abandoned her while on a visit in India and fled to the US with their son, leaving her in legal limbo. SFF Legal Director Dorchen Leidholt & Senior Immigration Specialist Carolien Hardbolen are featured.

As domestic violence spiked among women of color and minorities during the pandemic, transnational abandonment began to manifest more frequently in South Asian immigrant communities. SFF Legal Director Dorchen Leidholt & Senior Immigration Specialist Carolien Hardbolen are quoted.

The START Act aims to expand protections for the LGBTQ+ community and victims of sex trafficking who are convicted of offenses as a result of that trafficking. SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger is quoted.